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Let's discuss the film noir classic Blue Velvet. After a college student finds a human ear in a field, he unravels a deep conspiracy about his town.
Written and directed by David Lynch ,
Music by Angelo Badalamenti
Starring Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Hope Lange, George Dickerson, and DEAN STOCKWELL
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | April 14, 2023 10:04 PM |
Creepy
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | April 13, 2023 1:55 PM |
One of many creepy scenes. I’m still scratching my head over this film after 30 years.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | April 13, 2023 2:11 PM |
Is Dean Stockwell a DL fave?
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | April 13, 2023 2:13 PM |
I've seen this movie so many times I'm always surprised when people call it weird or creepy - I processed it all ages ago and now find it kind of comforting. It's very funny. Sometimes I think it might be the greatest American movie. It captures the horror and perversion and also the simple beauty of this place maybe better than anything else I've ever seen.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | April 13, 2023 2:19 PM |
This is my favorite movie.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | April 13, 2023 2:22 PM |
R5 That was the point. It is a weird satire on the Reagan-era 1980's suburbia lifestyle.
American Beauty was the same way, "look closer."
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | April 13, 2023 2:36 PM |
American Beauty was overripe trash though. BV was on another level of satire and surrealism. So evocative and chilling.
The art direction and sound design alone are otherworldly.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | April 13, 2023 2:40 PM |
R9 Ok, but it is a good analogy
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | April 13, 2023 3:15 PM |
I find this the most linear and cohesive of Lynch’s films. It’s still weird but it has a more straightforward structure than his other films.
The Criterion Blu Ray looks fantastic and has lots of bonus features including a bunch of deleted scenes.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | April 13, 2023 7:44 PM |
[quote]I find this the most linear and cohesive of Lynch’s films.
*cough cough*
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | April 13, 2023 10:24 PM |
[Quote] I find this the most linear and cohesive of Lynch’s films.
and don't forget me
Was The Elephant Man the only film directed by Lynch that was a Best Picture nominee?
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | April 13, 2023 10:44 PM |
A Classic
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | April 13, 2023 10:55 PM |
I’d rather watch Dune.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | April 13, 2023 10:56 PM |
and Dennis Hopper is fantastic
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | April 14, 2023 12:46 AM |
[ R16 ] Yes, Hopper is indeed fantastic as is Dean Stockwell. The scene in which they brutalise Kyle MacLachlan in the seedy apartment is truly frightening.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | April 14, 2023 2:45 AM |
Dean Stockwell singing In Dreams is creepy
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | April 14, 2023 1:41 PM |
There’s a fascinating documentary about Lynch currently on HBO Max. I think it’s called Art Life. In it, he tells a story about seeing a naked woman emerge from the darkness between houses when he was a child. He basically recreates that with Rossellini in Blue Velvet. It’s a really haunting and upsetting image.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | April 14, 2023 9:56 PM |
That is a horrible trailer, surely not the official one. But i love the movie, i was like fourteen and mesmerized, including by kyle’s magnificent ass. Bought and heard the soundtrack endlessly. Rosellini was wonderful. Mixes weirdness with a story preceding twin peaks and mulholland drive. It is a pity Lynch lost his way but we’ll still got blue velvet.
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